When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue. That spawns a second terminal window (nothing need be entered there) and the pc just boots into the desktop normally. When I look at the first terminal window I see a process that runs continuously/repeatedly "checkForMedia(): error accessing /dev/hdc" When I shut down I have to come back to that window and type "exit" if I want to shut down the notebook. Per a suggestion I have run "top" to look at what is running but I am uncertain how to read the output. Question 1: What telltale sign in all of the processes "top" is showing would indicate the "check media" process? Question 2: What is most likely to be calling for the check media process and where might I find and delete it? (If in fact I want to delete ... perhaps I need to modify it?) -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida Drake, Heathkit, Kenwood, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Saturday 24 April 2004 05:29, doc wrote:
When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue.
Your instalation is hozed to begin with. You should automatically appear at a kde login screen with no terminal window. (Yes, you CAN set it up to go to a terminal, but since you are complaining about it, I have to assume that was not your intent). Is your system set to go to runlevel 5 by default in /etc/inittab as shown below: # The default runlevel is defined here id:5:initdefault: In other words, don't be trying to kill off processes generating messages that you were not intended to see. You are on the wrong track there. Your real problem is that your initialization is messed up. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2004 05:29, doc wrote:
When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue.
Your instalation is hozed to begin with. You should automatically appear at a kde login screen with no terminal window.
(Yes, you CAN set it up to go to a terminal, but since you are complaining about it, I have to assume that was not your intent).
Is your system set to go to runlevel 5 by default in /etc/inittab as shown below: # The default runlevel is defined here id:5:initdefault:
My inittab was set as you have described as proper. Perhaps this is happening after inittab executes? -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida Drake, Heathkit, Kenwood, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Saturday 24 April 2004 11:07, doc wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2004 05:29, doc wrote:
When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue.
Your instalation is hozed to begin with. You should automatically appear at a kde login screen with no terminal window.
(Yes, you CAN set it up to go to a terminal, but since you are complaining about it, I have to assume that was not your intent).
Is your system set to go to runlevel 5 by default in /etc/inittab as shown below: # The default runlevel is defined here id:5:initdefault:
My inittab was set as you have described as proper.
Perhaps this is happening after inittab executes?
Perhaps your X server crashes at start up? Wadeing around in /var/log may help. Look at the XFree86 log. You can also shift to Ctrl-Alt-F10 and watch messages in real-time as boot progresses. You might find something in there. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2004 11:07, doc wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 24 April 2004 05:29, doc wrote:
When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue.
Here is a snapshot of the "top" output: Tasks: 92 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 3.8% user, 2.9% system, 0.0% nice, 93.3% idle Mem: 514384k total, 489720k used, 24664k free, 105124k buffers Swap: 1044216k total, 1548k used, 1042668k free, 176212k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2530 edoc 16 0 84048 82m 25m S 2.0 16.3 19:58.08 mozilla-bin 2307 root 15 0 92932 26m 2680 S 1.3 5.2 84:26.64 X 2698 edoc 15 0 15744 15m 13m S 1.3 3.1 3:27.52 kdeinit 2709 edoc 16 0 976 976 748 R 1.3 0.2 9:08.38 top 2442 edoc 15 0 13844 13m 11m S 0.3 2.7 0:53.71 kdeinit 1 root 15 0 256 256 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.78 init 2 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 keventd 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.43 kswapd 5 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush 6 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:21.72 kupdated 7 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kinoded 8 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mdrecoveryd 11 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.67 kreiserfsd 962 root 15 0 628 628 536 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.86 syslogd 965 root 15 0 1408 1408 468 S 0.0 0.3 0:16.52 klogd 999 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 knodemgrd_0 1025 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 1361 root 15 0 700 700 608 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 resmgrd 1429 root 19 0 724 724 540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 cardmgr 1492 bin 15 0 416 416 348 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 portmap 1571 root 15 0 1588 1588 1380 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.15 smpppd 1573 root 18 0 1644 1644 1372 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.05 sshd 1758 root 15 0 956 956 868 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.16 cpufreqd 1760 lp 15 0 2928 2928 1312 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.48 cupsd 1867 root 15 0 1352 1352 1096 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.06 master 2079 root 15 0 696 696 612 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 cron 2081 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.03 nscd 2082 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.04 nscd 2083 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.03 nscd 2084 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 nscd 2085 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 nscd 2086 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 nscd 2087 root 19 0 828 828 708 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.02 xinetd 2088 root 15 0 848 848 716 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.00 nscd 2255 root 15 0 680 680 604 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 kdm 2308 root 16 0 1124 1124 952 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.02 kdm 2310 root 19 0 512 512 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 mingetty 2311 root 18 0 512 512 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 mingetty 2312 root 18 0 512 512 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 mingetty 2313 root 17 0 512 512 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 mingetty 2314 root 17 0 512 512 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 mingetty 2315 root 17 0 512 512 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 mingetty 2329 edoc 15 0 3624 3624 2220 S 0.0 0.7 0:07.40 xterm 2348 edoc 15 0 1680 1680 1268 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.04 bash 2363 edoc 15 0 1260 1256 1048 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.03 kde 2380 edoc 15 0 9356 9356 9184 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.13 kdeinit 2383 edoc 15 0 9452 9452 9172 S 0.0 1.8 0:00.43 kdeinit 2386 edoc 15 0 10816 10m 10m S 0.0 2.1 0:00.14 kdeinit -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida Drake, Heathkit, Kenwood, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! USA Pres. Election 2004: http://www.rnc.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
doc said:
When I boot my SuSE 9 Pro notebook I get a terminal window into which I must type "kde" to continue.
That spawns a second terminal window (nothing need be entered there) and the pc just boots into the desktop normally.
When I look at the first terminal window I see a process that runs continuously/repeatedly "checkForMedia(): error accessing /dev/hdc"
When I shut down I have to come back to that window and type "exit" if I want to shut down the notebook.
Per a suggestion I have run "top" to look at what is running but I am uncertain how to read the output.
Question 1: What telltale sign in all of the processes "top" is showing would indicate the "check media" process?
Check for fam and automount. One or both are watching your cdrom, to see if you put in a disk. Then they mount the disk to /media/cdrom. Check the runlevel
Question 2: What is most likely to be calling for the check media process and where might I find and delete it? (If in fact I want to delete ... perhaps I need to modify it?)
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